{"id":72618,"date":"2025-06-25T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/25\/nicholas-tarasenko-15-year-old-hull-british-sumo-wrestler-japan"},"modified":"2025-06-25T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:36:48","slug":"teenager-from-hull-becomes-second-briton-ever-to-join-a-professional-sumo-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72618","title":{"rendered":"Hull teenager becomes second Briton ever to join professional sumo stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Tarasenko, 15, gets rare chance to break into professional sumo ranks after winning amateur tournaments and learning Japanese<\/p>\n<p>A teenager from Hull has arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> to pursue his dream of becoming a grand champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/sumo-wrestling\">sumo<\/a> wrestler, as only the second Briton to win a place at one of the ancient sport\u2019s professional stables.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Tarasenko, 15, left Yorkshire for Japan straight after finishing his GCSEs, to become the first British hopeful to join a stable since Nathan Strange \u2013 a Londoner who fought under the ring name Hidenokuni \u2013 in 1989.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/25\/nicholas-tarasenko-15-year-old-hull-british-sumo-wrestler-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Tarasenko, 15, gets rare chance to break into professional sumo ranks after winning amateur tournaments and learning JapaneseA teenager from Hull has arrived in Japan to pursue his dream of becoming a grand champion sumo wrestler, as only the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1805,3351,88,203,1483,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-england","category-hull","category-japan","category-sport","category-sumo-wrestling","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72624,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72618\/revisions\/72624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}